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Agaricus modulatus var.
on old torn covering beech. 19 April 1889. Dunmore, Fadde.
Pileus at first carmineolate, at length plane or reflexed, pale cinnamon
brown at the tip, shining when wet, slimy above when full grown. Gills
adnate, splitting into 2 large parts before joining the stem, 8 on a rib, some
: elliptical constricting with the pileus, at length darker. Stem minutely
fibrillose, pale, cambrions, seiceous, or its cuticle splitting into fibrils shed
longitudinally, striated above, the striae corresponding to the larger gills,
whorled, white with silky fibres below, somewhat bulbous. Spore,
pale lavender. Veil is a persistent, deeply stained white broad
ring on the stem.
Stem waved ever when growing out from the side of a tuft but
from the level surface of the tree; rather long. Pileus, brittle in
its attachment to the stem. Gills of the very young pileus very pale
waxen white. Stem or pileus with little or no odour. Gills at length
corio-omnifiste.